When Oleg Viro and Burglind Jöricke resigned in February from
their tenured positions at Sweden's Uppsala University,
administrators hoped that their departure would restore
tranquillity to the strife-riven mathematics department.

Instead the manner in which the highly regarded university
brought about the professors' departure, for reasons that seemed to
stem largely from their knack for raising the hackles of some of
their colleagues, has alarmed many outsiders and caused